Solar Wind (Plasma Flow) Interaction with Magnetized Planets (Moons)

* highlights student work

1. Y. Chen**, C. F. Dong, W. Sun, Transport and distribution of sodium ions in Mercury's magnetosphere: results from multi-fluid MHD simulations, submitted, 2024.

2. Z. Shi*, Z. Rong, S. Fatemi, C. F. Dong, L. Klinger, J. Gao, J. Slavin, F. He, Y. Wei, M. Holmström, S. Barabash, Mercury's Field-aligned Currents: Perspectives from Hybrid Simulations, submitted, 2024.

3. L.-J. Chen, D. Gershman, B. Burkholder, Y. Chen, M. Sarantos, L. Jian, J. Drake, C. F. Dong, H. Gurram, J. Shuster, D. Graham, O. Le Contel, S. Schwartz, H. Madanian, C. Pollock, H. Liang, M. Argall, R. Denton, R. Rice, J. Beedle, K. Genestreti, A. Ardakani, A. Stanier, A. Le, J. Ng, N. Bessho, M. Pandya, F. Wilder, C. Gabrieles, I. Cohen, H. Wei, C. T. Russell, R. Ergun, R. Torbert, J. Burch, Earth's Alfvén wings driven by the April 2023 Coronal Mass Ejection, submitted, 2024. arXiv:2402.08091

4. Y. Chen, C. F. Dong, L.-J. Chen, M. Sarantos, B. L. Burkholder, Interplanetary magnetic field By controlled Alfven wings at Earth during encounter of a coronal mass ejection, submitted, 2024. arXiv:2402.04282

5. B. Burkholder, L.-J. Chen, M. Sarantos, D. Gershman, M. Argall, Y. Chen, C. F. Dong, F. Wilder, O. Le Contel, H. Gurram, Global Magnetic Reconnection During Sustained Sub‐Alfvénic Solar Wind Driving, Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, e2024GL108311 (2024). 

6. H. Gunell, L. Roth, S. Fatemi, C. F. Dong, L. Wang, Ganymede’s Aurora, Chapter in the Book "Ganymede", Cambridge University Press, in press (2024).

7. J. L. Green, S. Boardsen, C. F. Dong, Effects of the Evolving Early Moon and Earth Magnetospheres, Front. Astron. Space Sci. 10:1112233 (2023). 

8. S. Orsini et al., Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission, Nature Communications 13, 7390 (2022).

9. Z. Shi*, Z. J. Rong, S. Fatemi, J. A. Slavin, L. Klinger, C. F. Dong, L. Wang, J. Zhong, J. M. Raines, M. Holmström, C. J. Yuan, S. Barabash, Y. Wei, An Eastward Current Encircling Mercury, Geophys. Res. Lett. 49, e2022GL098415 (2022). 

10. R. A. Bamford, B. J. Kellett, J. L. Green, C. F. Dong, V. Airapetian, and R. Bingham, How to create an artificial magnetosphere for Mars, Acta Astronautica 190, 323-333 (2022).

11. J. L. Green, S. Boardsen, and C. F. Dong, Magnetospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets and Exomoons: Implications for Habitability and Detection, ApJ Letters 907, L45 (2021). arXiv:2012.11694, Press Release in Astrobiology Web

12. V. Mangano et al., BepiColombo Science Investigations During Cruise and Flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury, Space Science Reviews 217, 23 (2021).

13. S. Orsini et al., SERENA: Particle Instrument Suite for Determining the Sun-Mercury Interaction from BepiColombo, Space Science Reviews 217, 11 (2021).

14. J. L. Green, D. Draper, S. Boardsen, and C. F. Dong, When the Moon had a Magnetosphere, Science Advances 6, eabc0865 (2020).

15. M. Laneuville, C. F. Dong, J. G. O'Rourke, A. C. Schneider, Magnetic Fields on Rocky Planets, Chapter in the Book "Planetary Diversity", AAS | IOP Astronomy (2020).

16. A. Milillo et al., Investigating Mercury’s Environment with the Two-Spacecraft BepiColombo Mission, Space Science Reviews 216, 93 (2020).

17. L. Wang, A. Hakim, J. Ng, C. F. Dong, K. Germaschewski, Exact and Locally Implicit Source Term Solvers for Multifluid-Maxwell Systems, Journal of Computational Physics 415, 109510 (2020). arXiv:1909.04125

18. S. Jarmak*, E. Leonard, A. Akins, E. Dahl, D. R. Cremons, S. Cofield, A. Curtis, C. F. Dong, E. T. Dunham, B. Journaux, D. Murakami, W. Ng, M. Piquette, A. P. Girija, K. Rink, L. Schurmeier, N. Stein, N. Tallarida, M. Telus, L. Lowes, C. Budney, K. L. Mitchell, QUEST: A New Frontiers Uranus Orbiter Mission Concept Study, Acta Astronautica 170, 6-26 (2020).

19. C. F. Dong, L. Wang, A. Hakim, A. Bhattacharjee, J. A. Slavin, G. A. DiBraccio, K. Germaschewski, Global Ten-Moment Multifluid Simulations of the Solar Wind Interaction with Mercury: From the Planetary Conducting Core to the Dynamic Magnetosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett. 46, 11584-11596, doi:10.1029/2019GL083180 (2019). arXiv:1904.02695

20. C. F. Dong, Z. G. Huang, M. Lingam, Role of Planetary Obliquity in Regulating Atmospheric Escape: G-dwarf versus M-dwarf Earth-like Exoplanets, ApJ Letters 882, L16 (2019). arXiv:1907.07459; Highlight on AAS Nova, Press Release in Astrobiology Web.

21. J. A. Slavin, H. Middleton, J. Raines, X. Z. Jia, J. Zhong, W.-J. Sun, S. Livi, S. Imber, G. K. Poh, M. Akhavan-Tafti, J. Jasinski, G. DiBraccio, C. F. Dong, R. Dewey, M. L. Mays, MESSENGER Observations of Disappearing Dayside Magnetosphere Events at Mercury, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics 124, 6613-6635, doi:10.1029/2019JA026892 (2019).

22. L. Wang, K. Germaschewski, A. Hakim, C. F. Dong, J. Raeder, A. Bhattacharjee, Electron Physics in 3D Two-Fluid Ten-Moment Modeling of Ganymede's Magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics 123, 2815-2830, doi:10.1002/2017JA024761 (2018). arXiv:1802.02198 (JGR cover)

23. C. F. Dong, Z. G. Huang, M. Lingam, G. Toth, T. I. Gombosi, A. Bhattacharjee, The dehydration of water worlds via atmospheric losses, ApJ Letters 847, L4 (2017). arXiv:1709.01219; Press Release in Astrobiology Web, News Stories in Universe Today, Harvard-Cfa, Phys.org and Science Alert etc.

    • Non-Peer-Reviewed

24. P. K. Byrne et al., Landed Mercury Exploration and the Timely Need for a Mission Concept Study (2018), Community White Paper on Landed Mercury Science.

25. P. Kollmann et al., Magnetospheric Studies: A requirement for addressing interdisciplinary mysteries in the Ice Giant systems (2020), White Papers for the Decadal Survey on Planetary Science and Astrobiology.

26. C. Beddingfield et al., Exploration of the Ice Giant Systems (2020), White Papers for the Decadal Survey on Planetary Science and Astrobiology.

27. A. N. Deutsch et al., Science Opportunities offered by Mercury's Ice-Bearing Polar Deposits (2020), White Papers for the Decadal Survey on Planetary Science and Astrobiology.

28. I. J. Cohen et al., New Frontiers-class Uranus Orbiter: Exploring the feasibility of achieving multidisciplinary science with a mid-scale mission (2020), White Papers for the Decadal Survey on Planetary Science and Astrobiology.